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Hawkinsville Opera House

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
73000638

Phone
  
+1 478-783-1884

Built
  
1907 (1907)

Opened
  
1907

Added to NRHP
  
1 March 1973

Hawkinsville Opera House

Location
  
Lumpkin and Broad Sts., Hawkinsville, Georgia

Address
  
42 S Lumpkin, Hawkinsville, GA 31036, USA

Similar
  
Atkinson County Courthouse, Windsor Hotel, Douglass Theatre, Holliday‑Dorsey‑Fife House, Old Governor's Mansion

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Hawkinsville Opera House, originally known as the City Auditorium and sometimes referred to as Hawkinsville City Hall-Auditorium, is a theater building in downtown Hawkinsville, Georgia. It was built in 1907 after the city awarded a contract for a performing arts building to be constructed at a cost of $16,470. It was designed by Macon, Georgia architect and theater designer W.R. Gunn. The theater had the largest seating capacity of any public building in Pulaski County, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and underwent a 1.7 million dollar renovation 2000. It is managed by the non-profit Hawkinsville-Pulaski County Arts Council.

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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 1, 1973. It is located at the intersection of Lumpkin Street and Broad Street.

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References

Hawkinsville Opera House Wikipedia